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electron tube

NOUN
vacuum tube
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There is no glass envelope, as in an electron tube, and no complicated insides.

From Time Magazine Archive

In an ordinary electron tube, electrons "boil" off a heated filament into a high vacuum.

From Time Magazine Archive

The incredible accuracy of U.S. naval guns at Casablanca, which at 26 miles smashed the hull of the French battleship Jean Bart in two salvos, was a triumph for the electron tube.

From Time Magazine Archive

This light, bouncing off targets, is focused on a semitransparent screen at the front end of an extremely sensitive electron tube.

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Actual father of electronics is Lee De Forest.* who evolved the first modern electron tube in 1906.

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